Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Ross Thomson House
Shelburne, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1785
- Decade built
- 1780-1789
- Builder
- George and Robert Ross
- Cultural association
- Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 4 August 1983
- Civic address
- 9 Charlotte Lane
- Community
- Shelburne
- County
- Shelburne
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.76098, -65.32372
- File number
- Prov_file_16
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
this property's association with the Loyalist settlement of this Province; its value as it reflects the history of trade and commerce in Nova Scotia and its contribution to the development of the Town of Shelburne.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Ross-Thomson House include:
- form and massing of the store and the house;
- heavy plank doors, studded, barred and double-locked;
- windows flashed with birch bark cut only in north and west sides of house except for small window high in east wall;
- wood construction on granite foundation;
- mouldings in Scottish styles and shapes recorded 500 years earlier;
- mail slot in the shutter of north window;
- early hardware.
Nearby in the register
- Joseph McGill Company Officecommercialunder 1 mi
- George Gracie House (aka The Coopers Inn)innunder 1 mi
- White-Irwin Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Shakespear Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.